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Sechelt council is looking at a deficit of $359,265 in their 2013 operating budget that will likely need to be filled by taxation, as well as a shortage of more than $4 million in the preliminary capital budget this year.

Money for job and skills retraining and a commitment to share the costs of municipal infrastructure projects marked the highlights of the federal government's 2013 budget on Thursday, March 21.

Gibsons council has to attract new development and curtail discretionary spending to avoid sinking the Town in a sea of debt, a pair of critics told council recently.

Two people, including an 18-month-old child were taken to area hospitals after a boating accident in Halfmoon Bay Friday morning.

The RCMP Musical Ride will make its first-ever stop on the Sunshine Coast this summer with one performance in Gibsons.

A Roberts Creek man is grateful to Canada's health-care system after a poisonous snake bite in Costa Rica almost ended his life.

The Sunshine Coast's leading traffic safety advocate is urging the Town of Gibsons to reject a proposal by Victoria city council to drop the default speed limit across the province from 50 km/h to 40 km/h.

The Sechelt Indian Band (SIB) hall could not hold all the people who came to remember and honour Elder Theresa Jeffries during her celebration of life ceremony on Monday, March 25.

Sunshine Coast RCMP arrested six men on outstanding warrants between March 27 and 28 on charges out of three Lower Mainland jurisdictions, including the Sunshine Coast, Surrey and New Westminster.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for March 19 to 26: Police have received several complainants of gas theft from the Kwatamus Avenue and Xenichen Avenue. The thief is siphoning gas from vehicles during the night. Between Feb.